Chalet Village Health and Rehabilitation Center

Chalet Village Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized government-owned nursing home located in Berne, Indiana. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this looks like a very good facility. In our view, this place looks like a good fit for most people. This facility is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.72727 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. The nursing grade is based on several subcategories, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides an impressive 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Out of this total, more than one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We add more weight to hours provided by skilled nurses in computing our nursing scores. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This place fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.

The last category we graded ended up being this facility's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- for short-term care. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a reliable assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 40.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home, which is actually below average.